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Brady Corbet’s film "The Brutalist" explores the odious and corrupt world of capital, ego and power which overwhelms an architect’s resources. (Focus Features)
Posted inFilm

The Oscar race: Bob Dylan and László Tóth face the limits of Jewish reinvention

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar February 5, 2025February 5, 2025
Writer Adam Gopnik spoke at JCCSF recently. (Brigitte Lacombe)
Posted inHistory

New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik on where Jews thrive best: Cities

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi January 27, 2025January 27, 2025
The gasometer on what was then named Army Street and today is Cesar Chavez Street in San Francisco.(OpenSFHistory/wnp14.2249)
Posted inFrom the Archives

Gas, electric… coal? Customers have long bemoaned their energy bills

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 10, 2025January 10, 2025
Sheet music for Belle Baker's hit "Eli, Eli" (Library of Congress/Irene Heskes Collection)
Posted inFrom the Archives

In 1929, Vaudeville’s Jewish ‘red hot mama’ Belle Baker was a hit in San Francisco

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 31, 2024December 31, 2024
a ceramic plate with two latkes served with sour cream and apple sauce
Posted inLocal Voice

Potato latkes really aren’t that old. Here’s their true history.

Rachel B. Gross by Rachel B. Gross December 30, 2024December 30, 2024
five men in WWII-era US Army combat uniforms work together to erect a flagpole atop a pile of rubble
Posted inPhotography

San Francisco getting a block named for famed Iwo Jima photographer Joe Rosenthal

Aaron Levy-Wolins by Aaron Levy-Wolins November 26, 2024December 12, 2024
The 1902 funeral of Rabbi Jacob Joseph (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inBooks

How the biggest antisemitic riot in America transformed Jewish history 

by Benjamin Ivry November 26, 2024November 26, 2024
A painting of a gladiator, clad in gold, standing over his defeated opponent. He looks up at the crowd, many of whom hold their hands up in the thumbs-down sign.
Posted inFilm

There aren’t Jewish fighters in Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator II.’ But what about in ancient Rome?

by Luke Tress November 25, 2024November 25, 2024
a black and white portrait of a bearded man in an 18th-century suit
Posted inFrom the Archives

The forgotten — and very first — Jewish mayor of San Francisco. And no, it’s not Sutro or Feinstein.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 12, 2024November 13, 2024
a vintage ad for Levi's jeans next to a photo of Lurie posing with supporters
Posted inBay Area

Where does Daniel Lurie’s fortune come from? Here’s the Levi Strauss heir’s family tree

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 11, 2024January 6, 2026

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